GAP using Child labour - email them now!

From Plot Tracer

Again the capitalist system is shown to use the most vulnerable people in order to squeeze as much profits as possible for the few -

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7066019.stm )

Register your disgust at the use of child labour - and GAP's decided solution - the destruction of the clothing in question. With millions of children living in poverty - and over 35000 children in the relatively small city of Glasgow receiving school uniform grants (google YOUR area for poverty statistics).

This is what I sent to GAP and other organisations involved with the company, and the BBC and UK paper, the Observer (who have broken the story).

SLLU ACTION!

EMAIL GAP - THEIR EMAIL ADDRESSES ARE HERE:
http://www.gap.com/customerService/

and these people are an org they are heavily involved with (forward your email to them as well) -

http://www.sa-intl.org/


Main agencies in UK running the story -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newswatch/ukfs/hi/feedback/default.stm
letters@observer.co.uk

Look up others in your area.

Statistics about poverty in your area should be easy enough to find on the net.

This is my email, if you want to use it, go ahead, but reword it.

Sir,

Although disgusted at the breakdown of the manufacturing chain that has led to the news that Gap had inadvertently been using child labour, I fear that GAP are about to do something even worse. In today's BBC news the report ended saying GAP were going to destroy the clothing involved. This, in a country were there are millions of children growing up in poverty (in Glasgow alone there are over 35000 children who get school uniform grants every year and 1/4 of Scotlands children are being brought up in what the European community term as poverty conditions - and this figure is roughly the same throughout the UK rising to 1/3 in cities like Glasgow).

A better use of the clothing that has been proven to have included children in the manufacturing process would be for GAP to give the pieces over to as charity like the Child Poverty Action Group (http://www.cpag.org.uk/) to distribute. This would not only give much needed clothing to the people who need it most, but it would go some way to show that GAP is serious about its commitment to Community Investment (http://www.gapinc.com/public/SocialResponsibility/sr_community.shtml ).


Yours etc

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NO SWEAT SCOTLAND:
http://nosweatscotland.blogspot.com/

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